TYPHOON Jebi is bearing down hard on Japan as it moves across the country and brings heavy rain and strong winds, but has the strong storm made landfall?

Typhoon Jebi has already made landfall on western Japan and is set to make landfall on Shikoku, the smallest main island, before moving across the western part of the largest main island, Honshu and Osaka, the nation’s second-largest city.

Jebi is the strongest tropical cyclone to hit Japan in 25 years and evacuation advisories are in force for one million people and hundreds of flights have been cancelled, along with scores of ferries and trains, NHK public television said.

The Shinkansen bullet train was operating at a reduced schedule and Universal Studios Japan, a popular amusement park near Osaka was closed.

Television footage showed waves pounding the coastlines and high waves dwarfing the boats at a fishing port in Aki, Kochi Prefecture.